Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-06-24

High license is blood money; it may
be theblood of your own SOB. Fathers
do yol want share in it?'
III Is monstrous in state to so Ii
cense a man that the more crime he
crates the more money he makes.
a masonic decree has been promul-
gated, that liquor selling is unnasonic,
ind renders all masons engaged in it |
liable to expulsion.
Whiskey men have dollars at stake
while we have sons at stake. It re-
mains to be seen which will weigh the
heaviest with the voters of .Jerauld Co,
The voter who is loyal to the Amer
lean flag and would protect The purity
OF the American home, cannot give his
support in favor of legalizing the liq-
uor traIhc.
"Prohibition cannot be enforced. En-
forced against whom? The criminal
classes. Therefore you must enact a
law that all the criminals are willing
to obey. Is that it?
Statistics show that it costs three
dollars in direct taxes, to say nothing
about the rest OF the account, 70 collect
every vile dollar paid into the public
treasury through saloon license.
"'The licensing of crime is itself a
crime; and the licensing OF tlppling
saloons by the voters makes every such
voter a partner in the saloon business
and guilty accessory to all the crimes
resulting from the traffic"
A proprietor of a factory in one of
the eastern states recently paid his
employees $780, on Saturday in new bills
which he had secretly marked. On the
following Monday $4OQ of the marked
bills were deposited in the banks Of
the place by the saloon-Eeepers, That's
the way liquor-tratfic helps business.
IF 1T is insisted that men will drink,
and no refusal to license can prevent
it, the answer is plain. No law against
theft prevents stealing, but it is a
great gain that when men steal they
1 thereby become violators Of law and
are thus liable to be punished. II men
will sell, let it be done against any lie.
gal sanction and let them become law
breakers"
The grand lodge at Huron passed
the following resolution: That no per-
son who is engaged in the business OF
keeping a saloon, or engaged in the
business of retailing intoxicating Ii.
quors to be used as beverage, shall be
initiated in any subordinate lodge in
this jurisdiction, nor shall any brother
Mason who is engaged in such business
be received in any lodge by utilization
Fathers would you like to have a sd
loon established on the next lot to YOU
home? II not how dare you sugges
to put one next to some one else? TIT
character of a boy-reducing, man-de
bauchlng crime-mill can never be i'm
proved. A few dollars in money Will
r it may appease the consciences of har
i, dened. grasping citizens, can neve
whiten the blood-red brutal crime
a constantly produced by the liquo
! traffic.
Some of the economical ones objec
to submitting the liquor question to
S vote of the people under the Local Or
a Uion act. because Of extra expense.
y they will bear in mind that there wi
s be a vote upon the division OF the lei
# ritory when the machinery of an ele(
l. ton will be in running order, thel
Il fears will vanish. And to bring 1t dow
!. TO a matter of dollars and cents, tru
v economy would at once suggest the e2
= pediency of carrying a vote next ia
f against the sale of intoXicants in Je
,s auld Co. In this day OF enlightene
% public sentiment it is folly to talk {
h the advantage of the revenue from
" censing the traffic. That delusiVe Idle
70 has been completely demollshe
n through statistics, which show that tn
= liouor association throws yearly SOO,Ol
N paupers, 325,00O criminals, $4,000 idiot
o. and 100000 drunkards upon the publ
n and private charity in America.
st And now the rum-selling fraternlt
Iy is amusing itself by swapping guns
d Frances Willard, brave Anna Gordon
S. Miss Wizards secretary, quietly pla'
v inc her own person between the gu
y and our temperance queen. This Is 10
a lowed by the rafting OF stones on IN
J. rink while Miss Willard IS speaking
y But dear me DO let them give yer
!? some way, Tor their arguments are a
n eyharsted or exploded. 50 grin III
IS bear it," il they do no worse than q
: un sucI. antics as they did in Mortimer
" Mass. when they entered the barn
n the " C. 4. L. President and sheare
% the name ana tail from her dr1yln
# horse, and ruined her top carnage an
,t an open buggy by cutting the uphol'
d tery and leather and whiting u
J. woodwork. such intlictions are e.
n ceetlingly light compared TO Wlao Ille
s have been doing Tor years by the